Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Tables
  • 1.1 Primary News Sources for Various Demographic Groups
  • 1.2 Adequacy of Media Coverage
  • 2.1 Large (15-point) Differences in Knowledge of Politics
  • 2.2 Orchestration of a Campaign Advertisement
  • 3.1 Complexity of Issue Discussions: Ratio of Simple to Complex Statements
  • 3.2 Complexity Levels by Focus Groups
  • 3.3 Complexity Levels by Issue Areas
  • 4.1 Sample Visual Cues for Common Themes
  • 4.2 Visual Information in Foreign Affairs News
  • 4.3 Picture Contributions to Verbal Themes in Routine Nonfeature News Stories.
  • 4.4 Real and Imagined Picture Contribution
  • 5.1 Satisfaction with Television Programming, 1998 (1994)
  • 5.2 Politically Informative Segments on Typical Nightly National Newscasts, 1997-98
  • 5.3 Hours of Politically Relevant Programming on Weekdays and Weekends
  • 6.1 High Public Attentiveness to Major News Stories, 1986-2000
  • 6.2 Low Public Attentiveness to Major News Stories, 1986-2000
  • 6.3 Selective versus Routine News Attention, 1998
  • 6.4 Close Attention to Various News Topics, 2000
  • 6.5 Profile of 10:00 P.M. Network Newscasts in Chicago, 1997.
  • 6.6 Nonadvertising Time Distribution in Chicago, 1997
  • 6.7 Journalists' Frames versus Audiences' Frames for Five Stories
  • 6.8 News Element Coverage in Broadcast Stories
  • 6.9 News Content Attractions in Television, Newspapers, and Magazines
  • 6.10 Typical News Sequencing and Breaks
  • 7.1 Interest in Technological Innovations by Generation
  • 7.2 News Interests by Generation
  • 7.3 Changing News Story Emphasis
  • 7.4 Emphasis of Prime-Time News Magazine Stories
  • A.1 Code Summation Sheet
  • Boxes
  • Economic Problems as Seen by Black Voters
  • Language Complexity in Broadcast News.
  • An Example of Gestalt Coding
  • Preface
  • 1. Political Television: Puzzles and Problems
  • 2. Political Learning: How Our Brains Process Complex Information
  • 3. To Know or Not to Know: Questions about Civic Wisdom
  • 4. Freeing Audiovisual Technologies from the Gutenberg Legacy
  • 5. The Battles over Audiovisual Content
  • 6. Making News Selection, Framing, and Formatting More User-Friendly
  • 7. Peering into the Crystal Ball: What Does the Future Hold?
  • Appendix: Methods
  • References
  • Index.